"General ____" (8)
(Other definitions for hospital that I've seen before include "Institute for care and treatment of patients" , "asylum?" , "Sanatorium" , "Spoil hat (anag)" , "Has pilot gone there for help?" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">general</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that general can be written as widespread)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for widespread that I've seen before include "Sweeping" , "Generally prevalent" , "available to lots of people" , "common" , "broad" .)